1st Edition

Global Institutions, Marginalization and Development

Edited By Craig N. Murphy Copyright 2005
240 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

For more than a century and a half, the most powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward', the destitute, and the despised. This groundbreaking book is a study of that promise, and of the real impact of this world government. It discusses... Read more
1. Institutions and Marginalization 2. International Institutions and the Pursuit of Human Needs 3. International Organization and the Unfolding of Liberal Internationalism 4. The Historical Processes of Establishing Institutions of Global Governance 5. A Twice Passed-Over Alternative: The promise of democratic 'functionalism' in the 1930s and 1990s 6. International Institutions, Decolonisation and Development 7. The Failure of the Third World Alliance 8. Freezing the North-South Bloc(k) after the East-West Thaw 9. Global Governance: Poorly done and poorly understood 10. Political Consequences of the New Equality 11. The Epistemology of Poverty and the Poverty Epistemology 12. Building Global Governance in the Twenty-First Century 13. Marginalization, Development and International Relations

Biography

Craig N. Murphy